About the Fifty-first Special Session of the General Assembly

Special Session of the General Assembly

The General Assembly, in the preamble to resolution AG/RES. 2895 (XLVI-O/16) "Financing of the 2017 Program-Budget of the Organization" established that the 2017 program-budget will be adopted by the General Assembly at a special session to be held no later than October 30, 2016.

According to resolution CP/RES. 1066/16, the Permanent Council resolved in its operative paragraph 1 "that the fiftiy-first special session of the General Assembly to consider and adopt the 2017 program-budget will be held on October 31, 2016, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organization".

Information extracted from CP/RES. 1066/16